Setsubun (Bean Tossing) at Sensoji 2025
Sensoji Temple Senso-ji, 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito, TokyoTraditionally setsubun (節分) marks the day before the beginning of a new season, but in post-Edo times the…
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Japan Brewers Cup 2025
Yokohama Hammerhead CIQ Hall 2-14-1 Yokohama Hammerhead, Yokohama, KanagawaDomestic and international craft beers. The Japan Brewers Cup has a dual purpose: it is a beer competition…
Art Fair Tokyo 2025
Tokyo International Forum 3 Chome-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda, TokyoART FAIR TOKYO is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, featuring a wide…
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Spring Love Harukaze Music Festival 2025
Yoyogi Park (Events Area) 代々木公園野外ステージ, 2-2-3 Jinnan, Shibuya, TokyoFree music event in Yoyogi Park. There are two stages and a huge host of stalls selling arts…
Hachijojima Freesia Festival 2025
Hachijojima Hachijo, TokyoHachijojima holds an annual Freesia Festival to celebrate the arrival of spring. The festival began over 40 years…
Asakusa’s Honzon Jigen-e 2025
Sensoji Temple Senso-ji, 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito, TokyoAccording to legend, a statue is said to have been discovered on the 18 March 628 on the…
Chidorigafuchi Cherry Blossom Illuminations 2025
Chidorigafuchi 千鳥ヶ淵ボート場, Kitanomarukoen 1, Chiyoda, TokyoAnnual light-up of the cherry blossoms in Chidorigafuchi. One of the most famous night cherry blossom events (yozakura,…
Anime Japan 2025
Tokyo Big Sight Tokyo Big Sight, 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto, TokyoThe key expo for manga fans and those in the animation business—almost 150,000 visitors and 200 companies from…
Tokyo Motorcycle Show 2025
Tokyo Big Sight Tokyo Big Sight, 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto, TokyoThe Tokyo Motorcycle Show, also known as nirin-matsuri (二輪祭), is the two-wheeled world’s answer to the Tokyo Auto…
Kameido Tenjin Wisteria “Fuji” Festival 2025
Kameido Tenjin Shrine 3-6-1 Kameido, Koto, TokyoThe wisteria at Kameido Tenjin Shrine (亀戸天神社) were planted during the Edo period and now the purple flowers…
Hitachi Seaside Park: Nemophila Harmony 2025
Hitachi Seaside Park Hitachi Seaside Park, 605-4 Onuma-aza, Mawatari, Hitachinaka, IbarakiThe annual blooming of 4.5 million nemophilas (also know as "Baby Blue Eyes") on Miharashi Hill in the…
Teruhime Matsuri 2025
Shukujii Park 石神井公園, 1-26 Shakujiidai, Nerima, TokyoThis festival started in 1988 as a way to remind people of the prestigious past of this area…
Akabane Baka Matsuri (All Fools Festival) 2025
Akabane Station Akabane Station, 1-1 Akabane, Kita, TokyoThis oddly named festival was started in 1956 by the store owners in the commercial district around the…
Ome Grand Festival 2025
Sumiyoshi Shrine 12 Sumiecho, Sumiyoshi Shrine, Ome, TokyoHeld on the 2nd and 3rd of May every year the Ome Grand Festival ("Ome Taisai") is—as its…
Osaka Comic Con 2025
INTEX Osaka 1 Chome-5-102 Nankokita, OsakaEven if you’re not a fan of comic books and manga, you’ll have heard of Comic Con. It…
Yokohama International Costume Parade 2025
Yamashita Park Yamashita Park, 279 Yamashitacho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, KanagawaAnnual parade with marching bands and dance teams that takes place during the Golden Week holidays. Check the…
May Tokyo Sumo Tournament 2025
Ryogoku Kokugikan 1 Chome-3-28 Yokoami, Sumida, TokyoSix major sumo tournaments (called honbasho) are held during the year—one on each odd month, each taking place…
Sapporo Lilac Festival 2025
Odori Park, Sapporo 大通公園, 7-chrome Odorinishi, Chuo, Sapporo, HokkaidoThe Sapporo Lilac Festival began in 1959 and the lilac tree was designated the official tree of city…
Sanja Matsuri 2025
Asakusa Shrine Asakusa Shrine, 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito, TokyoHeld annually on the third weekend of May, Sanja Matsuri is probably Tokyo’s biggest festival. It celebrates the…
Katsushika Iris Festival 2025
Mizumoto Park Mizumoto Park, 3-3 Mizumotokoen, Katsushika, TokyoDuring the first half of June, Mizumoto Park in Katsushika ward comes alive with over 14,000 iris flowers…
Kyoto Gion Festival 2025
Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto 八坂神社, 625 Gionmachi Kitagawa, Higashiyama, Kyoto, KyotoKyoto’s Gion Festival (京都祇園祭, Kyoto Gion Matsuri) is the city’s biggest festival and one of the most famous…
Shitamachi Tanabata Matsuri 2025
Kappabashi Kitchen Town 合羽橋道具街, 3-18-2 Matsugaya, Taito, TokyoTanabata (七夕) has origins in a Chinese festival of old and is celebrated not just in Japan, but…
Asakusa Hozuki Ichi 2025
Sensoji Temple Senso-ji, 2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito, TokyoThe Hozuki Ichi (ほおずき市, hōzuki-ichi) is a summer tradition that has been held since the Edo period on…
Mitama Matsuri 2025
Yasukuni Shrine Yasukuni Shrine, 3-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda, TokyoOne of Tokyo’s most popular summer festivals, Mitama Matsuri (みたままつり) at Yasukuni Shrine has been held every year…